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PRESENCE
2000
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14 years 9 months ago
Virtual Explorer: Interactive Virtual Environment for Education
The Virtual Explorer project of the Senses Bureau at the University of California, San Diego, focuses on creating immersive, highly interactive environments for education and scie...
Kevin L. Dean, Xyler S. Asay-Davis, Evan M. Finn, ...
SIGCSE
2008
ACM
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14 years 9 months ago
Cluster computing for web-scale data processing
In this paper we present the design of a modern course in cluster computing and large-scale data processing. The defining differences between this and previously published designs...
Aaron Kimball, Sierra Michels-Slettvet, Christophe...
FLAIRS
1998
14 years 11 months ago
Teaching Bottom-up AI from the Top Down
For many reasons, it is desirable to use robots in courses such as introductory computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science, yet the knowledge normally require...
Christopher A. Welty, Kenneth Livingston, Calder M...
ITICSE
2005
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Reductive thinking in undergraduate CS courses
This paper describes research on the perception of undergraduate students of the concept of reduction. Specifically, based on an analysis of students' answers to questions ad...
Michal Armoni, Judith Gal-Ezer
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
117views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
15 years 3 months ago
Visual programming and the blind: the challenge and the opportunity
The proliferation of graphical user interfaces has had a dramatic impact on the ability to work as a programmer. It is particularly difficult for the blind to create forms for vis...
Robert M. Siegfried